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encryption is only and-to-end, and searching on your device is easily doable


I chose a dangerous sport on my own. The car speeding with 200km/h into your car, will have an impact on your life even if you stick to 120km/h


See my edit, it addresses your point: "speeding with 120km/h will have an impact even if you stick to 60km/h".


This sounds like a Law&Order mindset. No, its generally not a great idea to get fingerprints of everything.


This is also a question of tradition and choices. Speaking for eastern Germany, it was very common for women to work and this is also a choice of living, maybe encouraged by independency/emancipation


It's much less common in Western Germany, and the difference largely persists to this day. The Economist recently had a good article on that, non-paywall link: https://outline.com/DZyckV


Women worked in all countries in the Soviet block, as the communist ideology was generally anti-family, so anything that weakened family ties was seen as positive. Also, of course by having two people per family working for the state (and there were hardly any private jobs, state was the main employer), the state can squeeze more value out of them.


Anecdotally from the generation of people that lived in Eastern Germany, especially in rural areas, a sense of community, solidarity and purpose is what went missing after the Berlin wall came down.

I have never thought of having more women in the workforce as "anti-family", and will definitely research on that, but personally I am happy to have a more diverse workforce and not stigmatize men if they want to stay at home.


> I am happy to have a more diverse workforce and not stigmatize men if they want to stay at home.

I dont think Eastern Europe is the place more accepting of men staying with children at home.


> I have never thought of having more women in the workforce as "anti-family"

In lieu of their mothers, children need to be looked after by professional caretakers. This weakens their bond with the mother. And even in the evenings, when mother is back from the job, she's beat and can't give the same level of attention to their children.


As a teacher, I had the great benefit of staying home with my toddler over the summer, and I can decidedly tell you that my wife was far more chipper and ready to provide positive attention to our son in the evenings than I was.


There are two parents! Is it still 1960?


Both parents are working, so the children are cared for by the state in Ganztagesschulen (Germany, literally Whole-Day-Schools). It's a mix of "we must raise the children because some parents are unwilling/unable to do it themselves" and necessity for average parents who cannot afford for one of them not to work full time.


Similar in here in Sweden, but my point is to highlight the focus on the mother as the primary and default child carer.


That does not make current female employment unrelated to independency/emancipation, just like wester female employment is related to that too.

That just means that contemporary woman is not seen as shirking her mom responsibilities when working. While the children are definitely seen as mothers primary responsibility, working is part of that. It also means that there is less expectation on women to be artificially nice or helpless and dependent compared to American stereotypes.

Unlike in America, woman working is not interpreted as woman being anti-family. Unlike in Germany, mom working is not interpreted as mom failing her kids.

Also, it is not like the first women stepped into Russian factory only after revolution. The women did worked prior that, obviously. Whether on rural farms in villages or in factories or as cleaners or selling stuff at marker etc. The aristocracy expected women to not work, but generally Russians have been poor and had to do stuff to survive.


I'm rock climbing as well and I devleoped a similar biometric token for my company, my experience is that the thumb works best, as you usually don't use your thumb a lot for rock climbing compared to the other 4 fingertips


Firefox Sync let's you syncronize Bookmarks, Open tabs, Logins, History, Add-ons and Preferences across devices by logging in once with username password


Here’s the Sync security FAQ to answer javajosh’s follow up question, which I can’t reply to directly.

“How Firefox Sync keeps your data safe even if TLS fails” https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-firefox-sync-keeps-...


If you click on the 'x hours ago' part of the comment next to the username you will get a parent link and can then reply to and save individual comments.


Couple of questions about this: does FF import Chrome logins? Also, can Mozilla read the data or are they doing client-side-encryption?


Yes, it can now import logins/passwords from Chrome/Chromium on macOS, Windows support already existed for some years.

> Passwords can now be imported from Chrome on macOS in addition to existing support for Windows

https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/70.0/releasenotes/


Wow. That's the final bit. Thank you!


I'm not sure about the former, but the answer to your second question is yes, they do client-side encryption: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-firefox-sync-keeps-...


Can each of those be turned on or off per device, and dont get sneakily turned back on during upgrades?


edit: Sorry for anyone I misled. You can't opt a particular kind of data out of syncing per device. You can only enable/disable for the whole account.

Yes, each (bookmarks, history, passwords, tabs ) can be turned on or off per device basis.


This is incorrect AFAIK. The sync toggle for a data type is for the whole account, not per-device.


You are right. Always thought it worked like that but indeed it is for the whole account and not per device. My bad.


by way of logging in/out, yes



It's gonna be hard if you really want security. Card developers put a lot of effort into securing operations against sidechannel pertuberation, sidechannel and many more attacks, that opensource developers will hardly be able to handle on theeir own.


This architecture allows you to move gradually from certified libraries (included in the proprietary HAL) to your own custom libraries when you're satisfied with the result.


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